Technology,
Labor/Employment
Apr. 15, 2022
The union victory at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse – a new way to organize?
One employee, Chris Smalls, was frustrated by H.R.’s lack of responses to workers’ demands, so he organized an employee walkout. As a result, he was terminated and became the face of the Union. He set up shop at a public bus stop adjacent to the warehouse and spoke to workers one-on-one as they came to and from work, even sleeping at the bus stop at night.
On April 1, Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island voted to unionize – 2,654 to 2,131 – in a historic National Labor Relations Board “NLRB” election. This was the first union victory in Amazon’s 27-year history. This was not like the union defeat at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama facility last year, which included major outside union and political support. In this case, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) was independent and led by workers from inside the warehouse. Since th...
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